Professor
Département de Nutrition, Université de Montréal, Canada
Guylaine Ferland is a professor of nutrition at Université de Montréal and scientist at the Montreal Heart Institute Research Centre. She is an expert in vitamin K metabolism and her team has made significant contributions to the role of this nutrient in brain function and cognition. In addition to her work in vitamin K, Dr. Ferland conducts research on the general role of nutrition in cognitive health during aging. In recent years she has been PI of the CIHR-funded NutCog Study, a Quebec cohort study aimed at better understanding the modulatory role of nutrition and metabolic states in cognitive aging. She is currently the lead of the Nutrition, Exercice and Lifestyle team of the Canadian Consortium in Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). Dr. Ferland’s research activities include both animal models and human studies and are currently supported by CIHR and CCNA. She was president of the Canadian Nutrition Society in 2019-2021.